bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

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** SUMMER OFFER – 10% discount on 3 lessons! ** - Three 1-hour mentoring sessions before end of September - 15,000 words of prose read (negotiable if you have more/less) - Total price £175 (US $250) Limited spaces available – enquire today! rosalindbrown.com/teaching-and...

** SUMMER OFFER – 10% discount on 3 lessons! ** - Three 1-hour mentoring sessions before end of September - 15,000 words of prose read - Total price £175 (US $250) – a discount of 10% on my usual single-lesson prices Limited spaces available – enquire today! rosalindbrown.com/teaching-and...

Part of a thread, and also here is a template for writing to MP/the PM specifically about Palantir's profiteering in the Gaza genocide

There's a great new Senior Research Associate role being advertised in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at University of East Anglia this month, working on an AHRC-funded project on creative-critical teaching in English studies. Please share! vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21...

Ever-so-tender moment between Virgin & Child, at home, with a single candle. And who needs more in broad daylight? Painted 1430 by Robert Campin.

"There is a long tradition of conservative lyric anecdotalism in English poetry" my goodness and don't we know it RIP J.H. Prynne www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

what a list to be part of! 🩷

I am just so unsurprised by this

Have just moved house and I'm very pleased with my new 'Penguins and Poetry' bookshelf

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I offer mentoring for creative prose writers! All genres and styles welcome; block booking discounts available; rehabilitation treatments offered for all the adverbs Stephen King wants you to get rid of. rosalindbrown.com/teaching-and...

Clippy popping up asking "are you not entertained?"

I saw an advert for Copilot recently and it literally showed someone using it in a business negotiation 🤔

The review is paywalled but I'm so excited about this book – Gwendoline Riley is absolutely amazing

The perfect tote bag doesn’t exis—

"It's not creepy. It's INNOVATIVE" 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDYa...

Keats question: in the final lines of 'Ode on Melancholy' – "His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might And be among her cloudy trophies hung." – why are the trophies "cloudy"? My edition glosses only the hanging of trophies (in temples, cathedrals etc.) and not the adjective.

"If AI handles the gruntwork, the learning pathway disappears" along with, potentially, the self-esteem pathway, the deep and lasting reward pathway, the ability to create anything worth someone else's attention pathway (&c. &c.)

*chef's kiss*

My books bring to light the alienation that was already present in my readers

I offer mentoring for creative prose writers! All genres and styles welcome; block booking discounts available; rehabilitation treatments offered for all the adverbs Stephen King wants you to get rid of. rosalindbrown.com/teaching-and...

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

1Died (alas!) on this day in 1455, Fra Angelico, the Angelic Friar. Here, Annunciation from the 1440s on the stair landing at the convent of San Marco, Florence.

Amazon supervisor told delivery driver to keep driving across the muddy tidal flats; denied they were an employee when they got marooned I cannot emphasise enough how easy it is to boycott Amazon ✊

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it really is this easy

Ruin a film by changing one letter: Shakespeare in Hove (or, somewhat more disturbingly: Shakespeare in Gove)

There's still time to respond to the consultation on the awful proposed changes to settlement rules

This just sounds like pure delight.

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So is tantra the plural of tantrum or what

“This is an overwhelming show of support for the commonsense position that AI companies should pay for the resources they use'. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

2/2 Narrative into icon: Giovanni Bellini's amazing Presentation in the Temple. So intense and claustrophobic. Love this one.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Chess game, 1555: the artist's three sisters & their nurse. Mischievous youngest, calm & knowing eldest, middle one who always gets fooled by them. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.

and either they assume 'ordinary people' have no interest in these things too, which is unbelievably insulting to pretty much everyone, OR (/and) they believe any 'good' art (= already canonical) will be able to make a profit and therefore doesn't need funding, which is ignorant and wrongheaded

the black ribbon on her wrist 👏

You shouldn’t have to work if there’s a bird outside you want to watch

amazing

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Bankersin Action https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19601

'Despite AI’s popularity, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I am shocked to my very core by this news.

"A more courageous Labour government could have helped with what might be called structural fact-checking: calling out the lie that migration is to blame for Britain’s declining social services and widening wealth gaps", etc. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

What I don't understand about the rush to AI is why people don't *want* to think. Thinking is the most pleasurable, gorgeous, exciting, sophisticated thing I do, and skipping that to get to an output and have more time to spend, I don't know, on my phone or something just seems insane to me.

"Using LLMs makes your work bland, vague, and wrong, and impedes the development of skills ... That development only happens with sweat, practice, shitty first drafts, errors, time, and revision." it makes your work BLAND, VAGUE, AND WRONG against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...